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Although the series is based on sacred texts, the popularity of the videos rests largely on their irreverence. The parable of the Good Samaritan is recast with vegetables that wear shoes on their heads as the enemies of those that wear pots. Instead of David and Goliath, an asparagus fights a gigantic pickle. There are overt Monty Python references. When the videos first started appearing in Christian bookstores, college students working there on summer break were their biggest champions, playing them endlessly on the store monitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding God in a Pickle | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

This exhibit featured the world’s largest Goliath frog, a nine-foot-tall boa constrictor skeleton and other natural art that usually remains filed and preserved in the collections of the Museum of Natural History...

Author: By Philip Sherrill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Annual Arts First Turns 10 | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

This exhibit featured the world’s largest Goliath frog, a nine-foot-tall boa constrictor skeleton and other natural art that usually remains filed and preserved in the collections of the Museum of Natural History...

Author: By Philip Sherrill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Annual Arts First Turns 10 | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...It’s like David and Goliath,” Curren said...

Author: By David S. Hirsch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Greyhound Starts NYC Bus Service From HLS | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

Movements for social change that effect true and lasting reform are as much about the communities that make them necessary as they are about the particular groups that impede their progress. They may begin as a clash between a David and a monstrous, all-powerful Goliath, but they must end with a collective renewal. Finger-pointing gets old after awhile, particularly when those doing the pointing may easily, 50 years later, become those who are pointed...

Author: By Sue Meng, | Title: The Cost of a Living Wage | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

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